open your eyes. i am begging you to open your eyes. while they may have come knocking at mahmoud khalil’s door yesterday, you will hear the knock at your own door tomorrow. and if you don’t resist this now, nobody will be left to resist for you when it is too late.
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo_news show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home."
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BREAKING: Last night, agents from the Department of “Homeland Security” abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist and recent Columbia University graduate, from his place of residence. He is currently being held in ICE detention. https://t.co/gyLdbnOq3N
Instead of evacuating campus @BarnardCollege sent a PRIVATE EMAIL to CUAD (@ColumbiaBDS) claiming there was "threat of a pipe bomb" in the same building as the Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Liberated Zone.
NYPD ordered protestors move back 1,000 feet from the library, yet on-campus freshman dorms received no notice to evacuate and multiple staff, students, and workers were left on the 2nd floor of the library.
If the bomb threat wasn't manufactured by Barnard administrators, they put thousands of people on campus at extreme risk in order to arrest and brutalize protestors gathered at the lawn.
Outside the Barnard building where students were staging a sit-in, Professor Jackie Orr, a faculty member at the college, attempted to explain the significance of the protest and the stand against the ongoing genocide.
Social media critics, including the online influencer who verbally accosted her, appeared confused as to why students would protest the mass murder of an indigenous people.
ALL OUT TO DEFEND BAY RIDGE & PALESTINE 🇵🇸
📆 Wednesday, Feb. 26
⏰ Press conference at 4 PM, rally and salah at 5 PM
📍 6807 5th Ave Brooklyn, NY
🗞️ Press release: https://t.co/BocpMi3fMg
For over 15 months of escalated genocide in Palestine, we have been flooding New York for Gaza. All the while, we have incurred both brutal repression from the NYPD and now increasing attacks from zionist organizations. Betar, Herut, and several other racist, anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic groups have attempted to instigate fights at our rallies, maced us, worked to doxx community members, and put out a reward for anyone who can hand a beeper to WOL chair Nerdeen Kiswani (effectively a death threat). Now, these same groups are planning to protest a masjid in Bay Ridge, a clear escalation of their incitement of hatred against our community. WOL, along with over 30 organizations across New York, are calling on allies to come out to Bay Ridge for a press conference, rally and salah on Wednesday at 4 PM in defense of our community and the Palestinian people.
EXCLUSIVE: Hamas official tells me the group intends to uphold Gaza deal despite Netanyahu's threats. "We will exert the maximum efforts to give this deal a chance to succeed," he said. https://t.co/i267B49ip6 WATCH the interview at @DropSiteNews 🔽
🚨Netanyahu is sabotaging the ceasefire deal by changing the terms of the agreement last minute!
Bibi is demanding:
1- The IDF does NOT reduce its presence in the Philadelphia corridor in phase 1 or withdraw by day 50 (the exact opposite of the agreement)
2- No end to the war until Hamas agrees to Israel “achieving the war’s objectives” of destroying Hamas as a militant group, disarming Gaza, & deposing the local gov (in other words that Hamas dismantles itself or the war on Gaza continues).
Both issues are NOT in the signed agreement (see below). Netanyahu is deliberately adding them last minute to ruin the ceasefire deal.
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"I'll be the first to cross the valley back to Gaza [city]! I'm coming, my beloved Gaza! Honorable Gaza! All praise be to Allah!"
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